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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!gatech!news.mathworks.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.cais.net!van-bc!unixg.ubc.ca!news.bc.net!info.ucla.edu!nnrp.info.ucla.edu!galaxy.ucr.edu!hill!grif From: grif@hill.uucp (Michael Griffith) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: /bin/sh (was: TCP latency) Date: 9 Jul 1996 22:39:56 GMT Organization: University of California, Riverside Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4run3s$3ou@galaxy.ucr.edu> References: <4paedl$4bm@engnews2.eng.sun.com> <4rrimn$dro@fido.asd.sgi.com> <31E16DB5.41C67EA6@dyson.iquest.net> <4rtvpf$7e5@fido.asd.sgi.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: hill.ucr.edu Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.networking:44564 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3978 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:23182 In article <4rtvpf$7e5@fido.asd.sgi.com>, Larry McVoy <lm@slovax.engr.sgi.com> wrote: >I'm also interested in John's comment about the smaller, simpler shell >that FreeBSD uses (I assume it is /bin/sh, right?). If FreeBSD has a >simple shell that doesn't break any common scripts (like rc.d scripts, >that would be a bummer), I'd vote for using that in Linux. I hate using >bash to start processes, it's bloated. I wonder if it is 'ash'? I thought about the possibility of using a smaller, tighter shell on Linux as /bin/sh because it seemed silly to use big ol' bash for every simple little system(). Right after Usenix, I ran lmbench-1.0 with both ash and bash as /bin/sh. Even though ash was significantly smaller and simpler, it wasn't faster. I wish I still had the numbers around, but bash was a clear winner. -- Michael A. Griffith (grif@cs.ucr.edu) | http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~grif/ Department of Computer Science | PGP public key available. University of California, Riverside | "My freedom of speech implies (909) 787-3803 (909) 787-4643 FAX | your freedom to be offended."